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I.ornlon. roRTXAn. battroay. afkii. fl. WHT DIDVI TAFT "AY IT BKFOREf The flnit thought likely to occur to sincere but candid friend of President Taft on reading Ms speech at Boston la. Why did he not nay It before? The misrepresentation of his opinions, policies and relation with the loaders have been repeated In numerous speeches by Roosevelt and have been largely Instrumental In enabling the Colonel to earn Illinois, Pennsylvania. Oregon and Nebraska. Not until af ter those political battles had been fought and lost, not until the false Im pressions had become lodged in the minds of tens of thousands of voters and had become the Inspiring motive, of their action at the polls does Taft produce the conclusive proof that a determined effort has been made to deceive the people. Taft was weighed down by a feel ing of gratitude for past favors. pro ably br a lingering remnant of that friendship which had subsisted be tween him and Roosevelt for many years, also by a feeling that such per sonal recriminations were unbecoming the dignity of one occupying the high office of President. No regard for the dignity of the Presidency had re strained Roosevelt, however, and Taft must have known that such a man must be fought with weapons of equal effectiveness. His goodness of heart, his Instincts as a gentleman, tri umphed over his Judgment as to what was due to himself. His reluctance to engage In controversy In the only manner In which Roosevelt can be met on equal terms proves Taft too good a man to be a good politician. Roosevelt has repeated again and again a garbled version of Taft's To ledo speech, but It has been left for Taffs defenders In the newspapers to combat the deception. Hi principal political stock in trade during the Illi nois campaign was the assertion that Taft was In sympathy with Lo rimer, though he had in his possession Taft's letter afflrmlng his desire to see Lori mer ousted and recitlm? the efforts he had quietly made to bring about that event. Taft could then have exposed the falsity of the charge. Taft has long known of Roosevelt's co-operation with Penrose, Aldrich, Cannon nd the other regular Republican leaders and could have made his erushlng retort to the charge of alll ince with the bosses before the Penn sylvania primaries. The President has learned at last that the game of politics Is fierce and relentlws and that. In order to win. no sentiment of gratitude, friendship or dignity must prevent a man from ulng every fa'r weapon that comes to his hand. Henceforward the cam paign mill assume added bitterness, divisions in the Republican party will become, wider and deeper and more difficult to heal. The President may ttem the tide which sets towards Jtoosevelt to such a degree as to pre sent the Colonel's nomination, but the growing acrimony b-.ween the two factions may convince the convention that his own nomination would be Im politic and that a third man not yet prominently before the people can alone unite the forces with any hope of leading them to victory. SYxmrAM.HM. 1 Syndicalism Is the latest thing in the labor controversy. It Is the guid ing principle of the Industrial Work ers of the World In the United States and Canada. That organization dis played Its methods of bringing about the realization of Its Ideal by the strikes In the Gray's Harbor mills and en the Canadian railroads. The Law. re nee strike was an outcome of syndi calism. The same principle dictated the French railroad strike, which the government broke only by manning the railroads with the railroad corps of the army; also the British coal strike and the simultaneous coal strikes In Germany and Prance, the purpose of the latter being to prevent Imported coal from breaking the Brit. Uh strike. .. Syndicalism' wars first on capital, but It also wars on labor unions of thw old style, and even on Socialism, which It Is designed to supplant. It is a French word, describing a theory first propounded by the French phil osopher Sorel. and the principle was first applied In France. It is defined In the following paragraph from an article by an anonymous writer in tha Fortnightly Review: What. thn, la tnla naw forra In tha labor world T Briefly, tha aim of aynrtlcaliam la tha overthrow of th praarnt capitalistic o clatT. and tha auhatltatlon of union of work IhIrikb. rontrolitn tha w hole of Industry. Tha srndteaJlat advaaeea bayond political or constitutional action. H works, not throusa any parliamentary rroup. hut through Ih rlaa war. waged by tha direct action of worklng-maa. groupod la rnduatiial union and employing tha triple weapon of tha mul tiplied atrlk. the ayrapathetlc atrlhe. tha general atrlk. "Tha pivot of ndlcallrm 1 tti general atrlka- Tha workman la aaaorad that, onea ba adopta arndlcajlat policy. Industrial capital will Inevitably b trmnaferred from Its prea nt owners to himself. Th abolition 'of wagea la to form tha bast of tha union of tsa futur. Tha workman la to control hie own labor, producing tha naceaaarle and luxuries of life for himself. Both th Utopia aad tha method of syndicalism ar cloaaly allied with th Utopia and tha methods ot anarchism. Syndicalism preaches ownership of each Industry by tho laborers em ployed In that Industry after the capi talist has been forced to abandon it by successive- strikes, the workmen receiving tha profits and paying out only the sura necessary for executive management. Socialism preaches own ership of all Industry by the state and employment of both managers and la borers by the state. The Industrial Workers of the World have Incurred the enmity of the American Federation of Labor ever aino their organization, von jearsj ago. The arrest for dynamiting of fifty-four officers of the Structural Ironworkers Union is hailed by Debs as evidence "that tne old unionism Is dying and that a new and vital one is springing Into life." Of this new unionism Debs says: The new unionism la absolutely bomb proof arninst the detective and tha dvna mlter of the corporation. It Is Ilia union Urn that unltca all the workers, teaches them to strike together, vote together and make common causa together In the worlrt wi.le struggle to emancipate themselves from Industrial slavary. William D. Haywood, whose name is associated with dynamite in connec tion with the Miners Federation, and who later became known as a Social ist lecturer, has become a leader of the I. W. W. and as such managed the Lawrence strike. He made open war on the Textile Workers' Union. That the Syndicalists will not wage a bloodless war need not be expected when they have such leaders as Hay wood. We have exchanged the secret resort to "direct action" by such men as the McNsmaras for its open advo cacy and use by this new revolution ary force. THK STEEI, TBI ST RKVORMl. The steel trust has shown itself re sponsive to public opinion by taking steps for improvement of tho condi tion of Its workmen. A special com mittee reported to the recent- annual meeting condemning the seven-day working week, stating that It had been abandoned except In two or three plants and that it must be abandoned entirely. The committee also con demned the twelve-hour day as de creasing efficiency and lowering vigor and virility, as well as from a social point of view. But the committee finds that a shorter day could perhaps not be successfully undertaken unless all employers in the same Industry would agree. The bonus system. ' which has been criticised as tending to speed up workmen. Is defended as an Incentive to Increase output and efficiency. The report of this committee is a cheering sign that the greatest of the trusts is disposed to consider other factors relating to Its business besides the profit to be made and to regard Its employes as human beings rather than pieces of machinery which repre sent so much output. The trust's Im proved attitude was brought about by the running fire of criticism which fol lowed the publication of the Pittsburg Survey. It Is another victory scored for publicity. FATHERS DAT. The second Sunday In May. as ev erybody is well aware. Is Mothers' day. On that precious occasion the whole world wears a white carnation in its buttonhole to commemorate the vir tues of those who bore us. To show what It Is willing to undergo for the sake of Its mothers the entire male sex dons a pleasant mood and cuts out the ball game. Nothing could be more heroic. Nothing could be more self-sacrificing ly. beautiful. And yet it must have occurred to every thought ful mind that Mothers' day standing all alone as It does in the calendar looks a little solitary. Like Heine's palm tree In the middle of the burn ing desert. It looks as if It needed company. To supply this obvious want Mrs. R. B. Logging, of Columbia, Tex., makes a suggestion to the press In which we heartily concur. It is that the Sunday preceding Mothers day be celebrated as Fathers' day. Mrs. Loggins points out with touching truth the sweet memories which cluster around the name "father." Every son knows what those memories are. the solemn woodshed, the hickory withe, the pa thetic old tobacco pipe. What en chantment surrounds those visions of the past, vanished, never, alas, to return. Let us by all means have a Fathers' day and. if possible, let us select an appropriate flower to wear during its hallowed hours. Mrs. Loggins tenta tively names a red carnation, but that choice docs not exactly seem to suit our fancy. On some grounds wa should prefer the poppy, the large variety which spreads out over a whole dinner plate. For one thing, there is such a tender suggestlveness In the name of this engaging bloom. "Poppy." Think of it. Does It not sound paternal? The name almost appears to have been Invented by Providence to harmonize with Fath ers' day. Mrs. Loggins shows a sur prising contempt for the eternal fit ness of things In preferring the red carnation to the red poppy for that sublimely pathetic occasion. We trust the practice of setting days aside for hallowed memories will not stop with mother and father. Why should there not be a stepmother's day and a Sabbath devoted to melan choiy meditation on mother-in-law? In the sequel we see visions of a grandma's day and a Sunday devoted to Aunt Polly. Perhaps In the end. since the calendar is likely to run short before we get through with the reverential process, we shall have to set aside a Sunday for an "all-relations day." Just as some of the churches have an all saints day. AS TO UMULT SCHOOLBOYS. Some of the high school boys of Pa louse, Wash. but a few. let us hope are greatly In need of discipline of on of two kinds. Either they should be taken out of school and put to work at plowing, grubbing sagebrush or at trades, or they should be brought un der subjection In -the old-fashioned way by a liberal application of the birch. According to a dispatch from that place, a gang of boys of that school. In order to humiliate the su perintendent and properly discipline him for having dared to expel one of their unruly number, spilled foul smelling liquid In , the classrooms, threejr the laboratory Into disorder, burned rubber overshoes In the fur nace and made the building for the time being untenantable. It is worse than useless to try to temporize with lads so lost to all sense of decency and discipline as this. They are beyond the reach of moral suasion. Any attempt by mild means fo make them decently ashamed of themselves would only subject those In authority to additional Insult and the school property to added injury. And since unruly boys, like unruly men who will not hear, must be made to feel, these obstreperous young rowdies should be dealt with as suggested, either by put ting them to work (the parents' duty) and keeping them at It. or by cor poreal punishment severe enough to make them respect proper authority. Penitentiaries are recruited from so called educational Institutions that condone and therefore foster lawless ness. The punishment of the ob streperous and boldly defiant school-' boy with the rod is protested against at the present time on ethical grounds. So also Is the punishment of the older criminal of high and low degree. Yet tttt: TironT-nxo orcEGoyiAy. Saturday, artl 27, lois. the experience Of the past goes to show that measures which it has be come fashionable in this day and age to deride made men of sturdy char acter out of unruly boys; while the application of punishment to fit the crime Is necessary for the protection of society from men who are dis posed to prey upon the lives, the rights and the property of their fellow men. There is a no more worthy and ad mirable place in the scheme of civil ized society than that of the respect ful, studious and energetic schoolboy, and there Is no greater menace to soci ety, present and future, than the boy who defies authority and studies mis chief. Woe to the nation whose men are too deeply absorbed In commer cialism and in politics to give personal attention to he training of their young sons. Such a nation is certainly "a land to hastening Ills a prey." NO rtACB FOB DISCRIMINATION. The possible menace to life to those who go to sea In ships, however stanch. Is noted In the fact that all vessels carrying passengers are re quired to carry lifeboats. This being true, why should not every such ves sel be required to carry enough life boats or liferafts to take off, in case of necessity, every human being on board? Is It not inhuman, not to say criminal, to subject people on ship board to tho awful stress of picking and choosing those to whom a chance of life shall be given by taking to the boats? No company of shipowners has a right to take a number of men, women and children out to sea with out making provision for the escape from death of every one of them in case of the always possible wreck. Every man on the great ship that foundered in mid-ocean a few days ago had as good -a right to a chance for his life as had every woman and child on board. This Is not to say that preference in disembarking in such cases should not be given to the more, helpless passengers: it la merely to say that each and every on was entitled, to a chance for his or her life by opportunity, when his or her turn came In orderly manner to take to the boats, enough of which should be pro vided for the accommodation of every one on board. If lifeboats are necessary to a ship's equipment for the safety of those who go to sea In her. why limit the num ber below the requirement of safety for every one on board? Life was as sweet to our honored fellow citizen, V. M. Warren, as It was to his estimable wife. Was not the arrangement whereby one was taken and the other left an outrage against humanity, against conjugal love, against life it self to one of them? And John Jacob Astor and Isldor Straus and William T. Stead and hundreds of others for whom no provision of safety In an emergency was made were their Uvea less dear to them, or of less value to their families and friends and to the world, than were the lives of tho few for whom provision for safety was made? No question more, pertinent to Jus tice and to humanity than this has been raised by the late awful ship wreck. If lifeboats are necessary to guard against the always possible dis aster at sea. should not enough of these be carried by every ship to save the life of every human being on board? There can be but one answer to this question before an enlightened world. , Let there be enough lifeboats carried to give each and every person on board a chance for life. That Is his or her right. No possibility of as sessing the value of one life above an other in such stress of circumstance should be assumed, since none does or can exist. THK NEW MADRID EAJiTHQC AKF- The correspondent whose Interest ing remarks upon the New Madrid earthquake are printed today in an other part of the paper errs in saying that "there Is little authentic Informa tion to be had" about this remarkable seismic disturbance. On the contrary several excellent accounts of it have been preserved and the phenomena which it presented are perfectly famil iar to the scientific world. The) New Madrid earthquake waa one of the most extensive of which we have any accounts. The shocks were felt throughout the entire eastern part of the United States and probably as far as the Pacific Coast, though "at that time the country west of the Missis sippi was largely uninhabited. Dur ing the year 1S13. when the principal shocks of the Now Madrid earthquake occurred, seismic disturbances took place in other regions of the earth. For example, the City of Caracas in South America was destroyed in that year. We may therefore suppose that the New Madrid earthquake was not entirely attributable to purely local factors. There is much reason, how ever, to conclude that the main cause of the shocks was the unequal settling and deformation of the strata under lying the Mississippi Valley. The ex tensive faults which were formed in the strata about New Madrid at the time of the earthquake would confirm this opinion. Some of these faults measure four feet In vertical extent and stretch over long distances. No doubt unequal settling of the strata sets up an enormous stress In the earth."'To this stress the strata finally yield with tremendous shocks and vibrations which are propagated over millions of square miles. For some years before the actual occur rence of the earthquake strange rum blings were heard In the neighbor hood of New Madrid, a small town In the southeast corner of Missouri. These sounds were probably caused by partial fractures of the strata which were not extensive or violent enough to set up any marked trem blings of the earth. It was on the night of December 1. 1811. that the genuine earthquake phenomena be gan. At that time there was a fright ful shock, accompanied with loud subterranean thunder and an emission of sulphurous vapor. Many subse quent shocks occurred, the most ter rific of all on February 7. 1812. Be fore the disturbance subsided observ ers counted some 1874 distinct re currences. It Is even said hat the earthquake is not entirely over to. this day. Slight tremblings still disquiet the population at New Madrid and occasionally do some small damage to property. Fortunately in 1812 that part of the Mississippi Valley was but thinly populated, so that tho loss of life was negligible compared with what it has been in some of the other great historic earthquakes. Most of the phenomena connected with the New - Madrid disturbance were faithfully recorded by compe tent observers. The surface of the ground was crumpled up Into long, wavelike hillocks which split open from the too and emitted spouting of sand and water. The fissures thus formed were often miles in length and of profound depth. The sand and wa ter came from deep-lying strata and were forced out, of course, by the tremendous lateral pressure which caused the fractures at the surface to yawn. As the strata spread apart at the top they necessarily became squeezed together at the bottom. In some of these fissures, which still re main open, flowing springs were formed. The stratum from which the water rises is overlaid by one of hard clay. When this is pierced an artesian well is obtained. According to the accounts there were flowing artesian wells near New Madrid at the time of the earthquake, but the water was drained off from some of them through the fissures and they went dry. Naturally this was not true of all the wells. As tho deep strata of the earth settled down It stands to reason that the surface of the country followed them. The general level of the earth in the Missouri region was depressed over thousands of square miles. In some places lakes gathered In the hollow areas. Rcelfoot Lake, Tennessee, which our correspondent mentions, was thus formed. It is twenty miles long and seven wide. It Is now a famous fishing resort and the boats glide over the tops of cypress trees which are plainly visible in the depths. Another lake formed on the eastern side of the Mississippi by the earthquake is 100 miles long, six wide and from ten to fifty feet deep. On the other hand some ancient lakes were drained by the earthquake. This happened to Lake Eulalie. Fis sures opened in tho bottom and the waters escaped through them, leaving a deep deposit of sand cast up from the strata in the abysses. Through the fissures during the whole continu ance of the shocks there was a notable Issue of sulphurous gas which colored the air blue and was-perceptible by Its odor. Much curiosity has been ex cited In all ages by the mysterious connection between sulphur and vol canoes as well as earthquakes. The Intimate relation between the mineral and these terrifying phenomena has even crept into theology and added to the picturesquenesss of the various Infernos. Science would hardly be prepared to say that sulphur is actual ly manufactured from other elements by the forces working in earthquakes, but how can we avoid the suspicion that something of the sort happens? Twenty years ago this suggestion would have appeared absurd, but since the discovery of radium and the ac tual transformation of one element Into another it seems reasonable enough, though it has not been proved by any means. Parallel with the extensive subsi dence of land there occurred near New Madrid an elevation circular In form and some twenty miles in diameter which still exists. Part of this eleva tion lay in the channel of the Missis sippi and It was extensive enough to turn back the current of . the river for five or ten minutes. During the great shock of February 12, 1812, the water of the Mississippi was first heaped up in the middle of the chan nel, leaving wide stretches of bare sand on either side. Then the current swept far Inland, carrying destruction before it, and, on its return, snapping off the trunks of huge trees. One grove was cut down so neatly that it seemed to have been done with an axe. The New Madrid earthquake is Interesting In connection with the re cent overflow of the Mississippi, since the "sunk lands" which It accounts for gave ready access to the devastating flood. When the State Commission has regulated the sale of liquor on trains to Its satisfaction, that body would well stop promiscuous and too fre quent drinking from bottles produced from pockets of boozy youth who have spent the day in the larger cities and are going home in a state of more or less hilarity. Some overgrown boys think it makes them "tough" to carry a bottle of whisky when traveling, but they deceive nobody but themselves. Some day there will be international law to punish skippers who ignore dis tress calls, with plenty of power to en force it; but before that time there is need of law to punish owners and directors of boats that go to sea in similar condition to the Titanic. In this view the protracted examination to fix blame may be of benefit to humanity. Douglas' confession that he simu lated insanity in order to escape the rigors of penitentiary life should serve as a warning to courts and Juries against giving too ready credence to the Insanity plea. The statement of Douglas that It was suggested to him by his fellow-prisoners shows that it is a favorite dodge of criminals. The Colonel should be satisfied with the attention he received on Thursday, with Taft excoriating him all over Massachusetts and Williams piercing him with the rapier of satire in the Senate. The American coal strike has proved to be no more than a Spring vacation, and. unlike the British strike, was settled without causing distress or revolutionary legislation. Moorish fanaticism In Fez brings the same results as Russian fanati cism in Kichineff. but France deals with the fanatics somewhat different ly from Russia. When a steamship runs amuck it Is well she chooses Seattle harbor for a stage setting, where she can do large damage with small cost in lives. To arms! To arms! The Adjutant General of Oregon has been called to Washington for a war conference. Those poor victims thought relief was in sight when they climbed the Iceberg only to freeze to death. Barney O'Nell Is becoming an Inter national Incident, and must have money left for the lawyers. The Portland excursionists are see Ing some of the finest country made, at Its show season. The Presidential campaign is be coming acute because many are ob tuse. The Olympic's striking crew won the contention but lost the Jobs and are In Jail. Hillman, the promoter, has a check ered past as well as a striped future. Tom Word Is "out." time since he was "in. It's a long At the Cafeteria By Addison Bennett. BY ADDISON BENNETT. "You are a liar, a cheat, a swindler, and everything else that is mean and contemptible. You have made me more trouble than the boils made for Job, and if I had a hammer or an ax I would smash you into a thousand pieces, little bits of pieces, so you could never make any more trouble for any body." It was the Monde cashier giving the state of her mind to the cash register, which had again called for consider able more money than there was in the drawer, and the proprietor had again been persistent in his Inquiries and aggressive In his expressions of confi dence In the machine and lack of faith In the infallibility of the blonde. Fi nally, to wind the bickerings up for good and all, he said to her: "The next time the cash is short you may consider yourself discharged without any further arguments or explana tions." Then he went back to the kit chen, and the blonde expressed her opinion of the register in the words above. Just as she was at tha height of her anger the members of The Cafe teria Poultry Company, Limited, crossed the threshold and gathered up their food. Soon they were seated at their accustomed table, but for a few min utes not a word was said. The little blonde was eyeing them. Noting their reticence, she remarked to herself in an undertone: "Them three guys look like three-time losers; I wonder if they had some money down On the Beav ers?" a a After several minutes of silence tha fat man remarked that In the 40-odd years of his life he had run up against several and divers kind of blamed fools, but "you two derned idiots beat all of the chumps I ever made connec tion with. You two fellows ought to go down to the City Jail and have yourselves locked up before you blow In every cent you've got and have' to call on me or some of your other friends to pay your board. Wise guin eas you are, wise guineas wise and otherwise. You went out to that poul try ranch and let them two fine fel lers, them two honest country fellers, them two reliable farmer fellers, shet your eyes up as if you was Infants-inarms, as teethless as them hens, with mush In your heads where us sensible folks have brains." The blonde heard these remarks, for they were not made in a whisper by any moans, and she remarked to the cash register, as she gave the machine a malevolent look: "I wish I had that fellow's flow of language so I could tell you and your owner what I think of you." when I got out to the ranch," con tinued the fat fellow, "I found a guy there who was nosing around and watching some fellers unloading a lot of roosters, them 300 roosters that Veg had ordered from town. When they waa unloaded and put Into the pens there was 600 hens and 602 roosters. This guy who was nosing around re marked that we had a choice lot of poultry, mighty nice, evidently all high bred stock, all full-blooded. 'And,' said this feller, 'the beauty of that flock of poultry Is that of the 196 vari eties of chickens laid down in the dic tionary you have a specimen or two,' he called It speclment, 'you have a speciment or two or three of every known and every named variety what is or ever was or ever will be. There are Jerseys and Cotswolds and Ham miltonlans and Durhams and Shrop shirea and Berkshires and Fantalls and not a derned one of them breeds is good for anything but to set on eggs and raise chickens. Over there In the far corner there is two hens of the celebrated Duroc breed, famous layers, and loafing around in other parts of the pen T see four more, mak ing six. undoubtedly the hens had layed the eggs you got yesterday. So you can see where you are at. You have six laying hens to support 1196 worthless hens and roosters.' "Come to inquire into it, I found this guy to be a poultry sharp what has made a snug little fortune out of the poultry business. When I cornered him he admitted that he was a cele brated breeder of the Buff Durocs, any how, he half admitted it- And then he went in among the hens and finally caught one of them Durocs and brung her over to me and said he consid ered her the finest speclment of a hen he had ever saw. He looked her over carefully and said that some book, called a book of perfection, showed how a perfect Duroc should have 17 differ ent colors of feathers and that hen had 18 different colors. "To make the story short, that fel ler offered me 425 per each for them six hens. Or he said he would do better he would sell them to a cele brated hen sharp for $100 per hen and split it up with me. Finally, he made another proposition, one that I snapped up pretty quick; he said he had a rooster at home just as perfect as them hens, he thought maybe the daddy of the daddy or mother of them hens, and he would sell me that roos ter for $125; then we could start a breeding pen of them Durocs and sell every chicken we could raise from them for over $50 per each and I made the deal with him and he went home and brung the rooster over and I paid him the $125. "Now, suppose we only get four eggs a day from them hens, or 360 for the next two months. That is a low esti mate. And suppose we hatcli them 360 eggs into 360 chickens, and then three of them dies, for chickens are apt to die. That would leave 354 chic kens tb sell, say at only $50 each see what a rich and Juicy deal I have made? You fellers are pikers, num--skulls, haii-brains. You fellers go out to that ranch and get took In by them honest farmers, and we have to punglea! up another thousand; I so out and in two days start something that will net us $10,000 or $12,000 before the snow flies." a Just after the poultry sharps went out, a hustling-, rushing, excitable indi vidual came Into .the cafeteria and grabbed so many different kinds of ed ibles that the little blonde wondered If he was going to devour them or carry them off to start a rival feedery. But he devoured them. As he came up to the desk to pay his dollar sixty he tendered a check for $125 drawn by the Cafeteria Poultry Company, Limited, said check being certified. The blonde had to send for the proprietor to close the transaction, as her official duties did not extend beyond the cash reg ister, the safe being closed to her. As the stranger waited, he told the blonde that some guys were starting in the chicken business out his way, and he had sold "em a rooster, breed and pedigree unknown, for the amount of the check, said rooster costing him six bits and dear at that. Not the System's Fault. , Chicago Record-Herald. "I used to think I would, know just how to manage my wife when I got her." . "Has your system proved to be a failure?" "No: the system may be all right, as far as I know. She has never let me try it." Just a Maiden's Prayer. Detroit Free Press. "Has she entirely recovered from the efTects of her operation T' "No. She's still talking about it." Meaawrlns a- Woman's Affection. Judge. Many a woman's affection is but in creased by receiving a check. FRATERNAL IXSIRAN'CE AFFECTED Increased Woodmen Rates Has Wide, spread Significance. EUGENE. Or April 25. (To the Ed itor.) Some time ago The Oregonlan made editorial mention of the change of rates recently adopted and to be put. in force next year by the head camp of the Modern Woodmen. In news items mention has repeatedly been made re garding the controversy that has thus been made among the members of this order. It seems to me that the basis of dissatisfaction has not been very clearly stated in the public prints, and as the matter is one that in reality affects all fraternal insurance, a word regarding It may not be amiss. It may be admitted that the rates formerly in use by. this society were too .low to permit the society in the long run to meet the demands upon it. It may, I think, be also admitted that the members of the order as a whole are willing to submit to an advance in rates. Division has arisen, not over future rates for new members, but over special rates that are made to apply to existing members. These vary from an advance of 50 per cent for some of the younger members to 500 per cent for the older members, and of course it is the latter that feel aggrieved. Members that have just been admitted receive in most cases the more favor able rates, while those who have been long with the order and have labored most for it receive the least favorable rates. This comes from the fact that the head camp disregarded the funda mental principle on which rates in all Insurance concerns are based, namely, that the rate is fixed upon the age of entry into the society, and adopted as the basis of the new rates the present attained age of the members. It is not difficult to Imagine the outcry that would be made if one of the great old line insurance companies should re rate its members, raising the straight life premiums of their old members to rates fixed for their attained ages after 10 and 20 years' connection with the company. The change is especially hard upon the older members of the Modern Wood men because for the most part they are men who work for daily or monthly wages, and these older members are past their prime and unable to meet the new demands upon them. The Pacific Woodman intensifies the difficulty a little by saying that for merly there were eight assessments per year. While this was true, assessments of late have numbered ten per year, that being sufficient under -the old rates to meet all death claims, but there are In all cases hereafter to be 12 as sessments per year. It would seem at first sight that the head camp would have adopted some scheme that would not have violated the general principle of basing rates upon date of entry into the order. It would seem that they have violated the fraternal principle when they put tha heaviest burden on those who have served longest and are least able to bear it. If this experiment succeeds, the same will be done by other frater nal orders and will eventually destroy them all. The reason for its adoption is n-i far to seek. There are three parties af fected by changes in rates: The offi cers, who wish to maintain their posi tions and their salaries. Horizontal raises have proved unpopular and have generally resulted in the deposition of. the officers making them. The officers must make friends with the majority ot the members. Second, the young mem bers who always constitute a majority. The cheap rates offered to them bring them in, and with lapses keep them in the majority. They must be reckoned with. They are still of an age when insurance is practicable so far as cost is concerned, and if not treated tender ly they will seek other orders or the old line companies. Third, the old members, who are soon to die, and who are a menace to the order. They cannot by reason of their attained age enter other companies at rates tnat to them are practicable. And so there will be put upon them a burden Just a tri fle better than a new company will give, and in this way the order as a whole will deem it has discharged its duty to them, but the rate will still be beyond their reach. There are, it is said, 50,000 of these members in the Modern Woodmen. The society, having 1,200,000 members, will not miss them. The only question is, can it survive the reputation" of having raised them out in their old age? This Is the question that affects all frater nal insurance, for the time of peril will come to all, and in the time of peril those less able to protect themselves will suffer. Ismay on Carpathla. PORTLAND. April 26. (To the Edi tor.) The writer under the name of "Shipmates" who attempts to justify the action of Mr. Ismay when the Titanic went down, very carefully avoids any reference to his actions after boarding the Carpathla. where he was at once shown a comfortable stateroom and remained incommunica do, showing no concern for the women and children who had been rescued suf fering from exposure, and some of them having no better quarters than the cabin floors. Such concern for his passengers certainly shows the selfish side of his character, and somewhat modifies his statement of activity in getting women into the boats. L. Happier When He Was Poor. Chicago Record-Herald. "I am telling you the truth when I say that 1 was much happier when I was poor than I am now." "Then why don't you let your millions go ani be poor again?" "Why, I should be miserable, think ing of the people who got the money." Beauty and T'cllness. Exchange. Beauty Is only skin deep, but ugli ness can sink all the way in. New Special The Sunday Roadbuilding, Least Known of Sciences Samuel Hill, noted author ity on this big topic, gives his ideas on a work that is of greatest im portance in Northwest. Stopping Child Marriages This is a stirring: account from a Bom bay correspondent of the plucky work of an American girl in India. Illustrated with splendid photographs. Portland's Nearby Trout Streams An illustrated half page on the haunts of speckled beauties close to the heart of the city. Science Probes Love Laura Jean Libbey writes of the efforts to dissect and analyze the tender emotion. Looking After the Children Uncle Sam at last establishes a bnreau that will seek to wipe out the scourges of our social evils among the little ones. Gentle Eeroes They are fhe leper-tenders who rule the islands of horrors. An article of the deepest interest, profusely illustrated. Two Complete Short Stories. The Jump-nps Jim goes into the shoe business with dire results. Sambo loses his commissary, Mr. Boss meets with a mortar bath, Hairbreadth Harry becomes King, Mrs. TimekiUer wins another vote and Slim Jim is received at Grassville. New cut-out clothes and a donkey puzzle in colors for the children. MANY OTHER FEATURES Order Today From Your Newsdealer. Half a Century Ago From The Oregonlan of April 28. 1862. Multnomah Countv Union Ticket For Sheriff. R. J. Ladd; County Clerk, J. M. Breck; County Judge, P. A. Mar quam: Treasurer, W. P. Doland; State Senator, John H. Mitchell; Representa tives, A. J. Dufur. Philip Wasserman; Assessor, Thomas Frazer; County Com missioners, William Kern, S. J. McCor mick; School Superintendent, P. S. Cof fey; Coroner, John Ewry; Surveyor, C. W. Burrage. The Government blacksmith shop at Vancouver was burned on Saturday evening, April 19th. Nearly all the ma terials, tools, etc., were saved. Mr. John McMuIlan, in charge of the shop, . had $1500 in coin in the building. Of this he has recovered $1100 or $1200. melted by the heat. His loss will be about $500. Judge Williams delivered an able Union speech at Eugene City on Wednesday, the 24th. Messrs. Overhold & Co., from Yam hill County, crossed the river at this point yesterday afternoon, having in charge some 28 pack animals destined for the Salmon River mines. The people about Vancouver seem to be going to the mines en masse. The Telegraph says: "If our citizens con tinue to depart for the mines in the same proportion that they have been for the last week, we shall be left al most alone, with the streets of our town and the farms and homes of the country adjacent deserted and forlorn." The city election takes place at Ore gon City today. Will some one send us returns? As "Ed" Howe Sees Life You must have noticed that a wise man keeps his mouth shut a good deal, Most people make the mistake of underestimating the strength of the enemy. When there is a strong but lazy young man in the neighborhood, peo ple always ask: "Why doesn't he join the Army-" It may not be possible for you to be agreeable to some people, but you can keep away from them. You can be tolerably effective and not be a hero. If your neighbors talk about you, it's a shame people gossip without reason about a man who always wants to do what's right with everybody. Newspaper readers become so tired of the noted people. To celebrate your victory only un necessarily annoys the enemy. If an honest man admits that he Is weak, people who are weaker, and less honest, will abuse him because of his lack of what they call "idealism." Some people seem to think that "idealism" is refusal to admit the truth. People who have a good thing are very apt to ask for a better. New Madrid Earthquake. VASHON, Wash., April 23. (To the Editor.) This year of 1912 Is the 100th anniversary of what is known as the New Madrid earthquake of 1812, that sunk thousands of square miles of land, now comprising a score of counties in Missouri, Arkansas and Tennessee. The entire region. is suffering more or less from the Mississippi overflow, that promises to be as well remembered in local history as the earthquake. There is little authentic information to be had about the earthquake, but its results are still apparent in numerous shallow lakes and sloughs, the most notable of which are Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee, and the St. Francois River region of Missouri and Arkansas Millions are being spent in convert ing these sunken lands into one of the most fertile agricultural regions of the Madrid, Mo., an old French set- . tlement. Is the oldest town In the state, having a population of 800 at the close of the revolution. It was an important river town, but has lost its commercial prestige since the coming of the rail road. ZELLA D ALTON. "The Kaiser" Their Death Cry. New York Tribune. ' The bravery displayed by the musi cians on the Titanic and the similar exhibition on the English ship Birken head recalls also the patriotic conduct of the band on Ifoard the German gun boat litis, which went to the bottom of the Chinese Sea, August 25, 1896. The scene was at that time described by one of the few survivors of the disaster, which claimed 118 of the litis' crew. He said that the men stood at parade, the band played "Heil Dir im' Siegerkranz" with all the precision and force of which they were capable, and, swinging their caps, vhe officers and men went down cheering the Kaiser. A Definition of "Thick" Miles. Chicago Tribune. "How far Is it to the next town?" inquired the traveler in the mud bespattered buggy. " Bout ten mile, mister." said the farmer by the roadside. "Long miles, too. I suppose. "No, sir, they're not so very long, but you'll find them pretty blamed thick." You Seei She Had Met Jack. Boston Evening Transcript. Kitty There is something that draws one to Jack: I wonder what it is. , thel I know: it's his arm. Features of Oregonian t